Primary 7a 23/24

Thank you to the St. Luke’s Transition team for their second visit today. Those of us going to St. Luke’s especially loved trying on the new uniform! Mini fashion show video below. 😊

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EvkS3xIWizzbtmLIhWzAly8nsux7758a/view?usp=drivesdk

A huge congratulations to our winning team of debators! They prepared and shared their arguments with skill, poise and persuasion and won their debate against Carlibar Primary.

We thoroughly enjoyed attending the SmartSTEM event at St. John’s school. We collaborated well and exercised some impressive critical thinking skills.

Well done to the one and only Tyler who is our latest Student of the Week. Tyler’s communication skills are second to none and he engages so positively with others. A lot of children could take inspiration from his manners! Keep smiling and spreading your kindness, Tyler! 😊

As one of our STEM week activities for the day we linked the discussion of endangered species to our class novel, The Last Wild!

Malik, Lilly Rose and Anna have developed their persuasive writing into letters in order to try and persuade some local supermarkets to donate some fruit to us each week. Although they’re leaving the school this year they’re hoping that they can help less sugary snacks become a bigger part of the school day. As a class we identified improved focus, better general physical health, improved condition of teeth and a tidier school environment as benefits of fruit snacks. We’ll keep you posted on any replies and developments! 😊

What a fun day filled with a treasure hunt, a live author quiz, a book chat with P6a and analysis of our new class novel!

We had a wonderfully enjoyable first Bikeability session today! The children listened incredibly well and took on valuable advice from our instructors. We’re looking forward to next week already!

Take a look at the two videos and photos below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11nxJIP2WEci98SmfNLeexcSQHLDRjrjl/view?usp=drivesdk

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dJKPP7k77FAoyUaZY5gtXBuqhFcXpLh6/view?usp=drivesdk

Our latest Student of the Week is Elena! She has worked tirelessly on her ability to take a central role in class discussions and has built up a huge amount of confidence in elaborating upon her ideas. Also, her dedication to the audition process for Pharaoh in our school show has been inspiring! We know that you’ll do us proud, Elena.

Today we peer-assessed each other’s homework task of writing the next paragraph in a story. Brooke’s was very popular! We then checked in to see what AI came up with for the next paragraph! We discovered that the next events via ChatGPT were not as weird and wonderful as our ideas! We noted that they were EXTREMELY well written, with fantastic vocabulary and levels of description, but the next events were not as surprising as ours. Our Lord Provost debate motion links to AI so we’ll keep referring back to it across the curriculum where we can.

Take a look at the video below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zOgBqYGEagYNGxzJeBd_jW_e09e181L1/view?usp=drivesdk